The other option that's worth considering is having a "Show in alt-mode" option on the combinators themselves, so that you can show it when useful and hide the rest. It would need to default to yes for constant combinators, and I could live with it defaulting to yes for everything.

I was about to post this myself - I waste loads of time searching for my tanks which is especially bad when I need one because biters are chewing on things.

The search function on the map/remote view should absolutely include vehicles - this is literally the first thing I tried to use it for.

If ...

TL;DR

Make it possible to show constant combinator settings in alt-mode, without showing the settings for other combinators.

What?

Split the interface option for 'Show combinator settings in "Alt-mode"', into 'Show constant combinator settings' and 'Show other combinator settings'.

Why ...

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-407 talked about "variable music tracks". There have also been several mentions of this in subsequent patch notes.

My understanding after reading that FFF was that all the music for the new planets would be procedural, but after hundreds of hours playing ...

Oh please can this be changed. I was just about to make use of "set recipe" for things like logistics chests in my mall and after discovering this behaviour I'm probably just not going to bother. I was really looking forward to the set recipe feature so this is very disappointing.

I discovered that if the parameterised station name matches an existing station then it will use that colour. So I made a reference area with just stations to set all the colours and then have parameterised blueprints that include the station and whatever else I want.